Gasoline Engines Quotes & Sayings

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate. — Phyllis Diller

Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words ... — John Geddes

Controls is about fear, see. If you're afraid enough of the reprisals, you don't say no, you don't fight back, you don't run away. Saying yes is how you survive. It becomes normal. Horrible, but normal. Horrible, because it's normal. Now, lucky you can say 'Not standing up to him is giving him permission,' but if you've been fed this diet since the year dot, there is no standing up. Victims aren't cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on. — David Mitchell

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. — Allen Ellow

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth! — Andrew Jackson

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. — Christopher Hitchens

With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use. — Wendell Berry

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up — Stephen Hawking

I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be - a more literate country and a hopefuller country. — George W. Bush

The windows are open, admitting the September breeze: a month that smells like notepaper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress, like moving on. — Lauren Oliver

Each one of us is a creator. And together, we are The Creator. — Jim Gilliam

You have been put too much to literary work,' he said on one of his visits, 'and that is the cause of your complaint. — Sarah Waters

Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles, — Bob Dylan

I guess everybody's different, but I know that everybody's natural instinct is to remember the bad stuff more than the good stuff. — Sam Trammell

In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else - by turning it into a spectacular subcultural style. — McKenzie Wark